Steam Hacked
 

I'll post a source when I'm feeling less lazy, but sounds like Steam was hacked and encrypted password, credit card, and account info was stolen.

Change your passwords, yo.

Here ya go: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011.../steam-hacked/

I don't even know what my password is to get in and change it. Fortunately though after the whole PSN fiasco I got my debit card renewed so my Steam details are out of date anyway now.

If you're not already using Steam Guard, use it. It pings your email with a confirmation code whenever you (or someone else) tries to logon Steam from a different computer. In fact, Steam Guard actually kicked in when I first tried to use Steam after installing a different motherboard in my PC, so it definitely works.

I don't remember the exact procedure to set it up, but you can find it in the Steam client in View > Settings > Account.

All sensitive information like passwords, cards and so on were encrypted, "hashed and salted"* so in theory it should be fine. Going to keep an eye on my debit card statement over the next few days regardless.





*Insert Gaben Fat Joke Here

From what it looks like, only the Forum was affected? But somehow they also got credit card info?

I can't even remember my Steam password, but I'm pretty sure it's unique to Steam, at least.

Edit: Though, this does make me happy about never storing credit card data with anyone. I hate it when things automatically save it, since I then have to go in and clear it out. For the slight convenience of not having to type stuff in, it's not worth the risk.

"We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums."

I note there's an option to "Deautherize all other computers", so I got that selected for now.

Glad to hear about this. I'm kind of annoyed that all these ancillary services I hardly ever use are getting hacked. I forget what the last one was, another one of these things, pretty recently...

Hm. I haven't bought anything from Steam with a credit card in at least a year, maybe longer. Do you suppose my credit card number is still on file there?

Is there any way to change account settings through the actual website and not the steam client? My steam client will not connect properly, and when I got into my account on the website I can't for the life of me figure out where you change things like your password.

Changed my Steam password already. Credit card hasn't shown anything strange yet but I'm keeping an eye on it all the same.